The president of Progressistas (PP) in the State of São Paulo, federal deputy Maurício Neves, admitted that the party should not go ahead with the plan to Palácio dos Bandeirantes in this year’s election. In conversation with the column, he stated that the time is now to put a “stone on top” of recent disagreements and start “a joint re-election project”.
The voltage cooling is due to a recent change in secretariat: the arrival of Roberto Carneiro, state president of the Republicans, at the Civil House secretariat. Neves classified Carneiro as someone “balanced and of dialogue, someone from politics” and who has, among his characteristics, municipalism, something that had been sought after by the acronym. The expectation is that the new secretary will be able to meet, mainly, the demands of mayors who until then were dissatisfied and with deputies from the base.
Carneiro was appointed by the governor of São Paulo, Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans), last week. The objective, according to the São Paulo Chief Executive himself in a statement to the press, was to really intensify political agreements with the election year in mind. The governor is known for being someone who gives little openness to exchanges in this sense, and who “does what he wants” without promising positions.
As a result, some plans were put on hold, such as the possible current campaign coordinator of Flávio Bolsonaro (PL), to the PP. He appeared as Progressistas’ main possibility for their own candidate against Tarcísio himself.
“We, from the PP, We have always been supporters and fans of Tarcísio. Both me and Ciro [Nogueira, presidente do PP nacional] We have always defended it”, highlighted Neves. “What we did was a constructive criticism, since, since the middle of last year, we saw a deficiency: we were lacking progress in strengths and agreements, without willpower. Now we dot the i’s”, he added.
*This text does not necessarily reflect the opinion of Jovem Pan.
